skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have posted quite a bit about them (see collection here), and object to them because they are not only compelled speech and are often completely irrelevant to what you’re applying for, but also ignore the fact that there are many ways to make contributions to society beyond enacting DEI. (For example, what about a college applicant who has taught illiterate adults to read?)

That is DEI. The writer is either confused or gaslighting for their own agenda.
Nice work.
It's recommended to start with a keyword search (including titles, comments, and the keyword itself) before using an LLM-based search. For example, if I search for 'databend' on https://hackersearch.net/search?q=databend&period=last-3-yea..., it defaults to an LLM-based search. However, I prefer using a simple keyword search instead.
Just want to note that, currently, this is the highest comment in the thread which makes any direct references to the article we're all nominally discussing, and it's about 100 comments down. Have an extra upvote.
> SMRs deliver constant....

You have this as an advantage but imo this is precisely nuclear's problem. Aside from the intertwined cost equation that goes with varying the power output. You want SMRs specifically made for constantly varying output. Scaling up and down demand is one of the biggest issues our electricity grid faces.

It surprises me somewhat that uranium prices are booming. The output of the mines was fine last I checked and there is no big demand increase on the way so speculation should be sufficient to explain this price rise?
Was it actually broadcast terrestrially? I remember picking it up from Astra2 (the "skytv" satellite) but looking online, it's not transmitted anymore.
Truth is a spectrum. I will leave my opinions on YC unpublished. Thanks for all you do.
Arc Browser, how private is it?
I currently am having a conversation with a company that I have purchased window blinds from, And I cannot find my previous conversation. It may have been Instagram or WhatsApp or email I can’t find any mention of the company beyond certain date.

It’s probably Some other app, but I don’t know what. My understanding is that Windows phone had a universal message search which would mean I’m not in this position.
Moloch is the god of unhealthy competition (win-lose)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2lI_5pydKg
Why sure. It's a rule that people who have the least amount of success with a thing will write the most about that thing. This is why those with their wits about them read things like Amazon reviews with a decent-sized grain of salt.

And yes, you're describing a very quiet environment in terms of outside interference. I'm seriously a little bit envious of that.

One thing that I am doing differently than what you were doing is this: I'm not isolating my smart-widgets to their own wifi access point, as I suspect most people also are not (since "most people" just have a single access point/all-in-one router for everything).

I built my little wifi network to have what I feel is good coverage in and around the whole house, with the intent that all devices (dozens of them) would use that same wifi SSID.

As an unintentional result of this combined network, if/when there's a problem with the do-all wireless network, I'm pretty likely to notice right away because things like my phone and my laptop won't work like they did yesterday.

And wifi problems have happened for me: For instance, before I went 100% Mikrotik, I was using an old once-fancy Asus router with third-party firmware as a combination of access point and switch for part of the house. It became increasingly unreliable as the years ticked on for whatever reason, and always came back to life after a quick reboot, but it eventually would turn stupid again anyway.

And whilst it was being stupid, various things would indeed break: The lights wouldn't turn on/off, or I'd see that my phone was using cellular data instead of wifi, or I'd say "Hey Google" and get "I can't connect to your Wifi" as a response. Madness, insanity. (And then I'd go unplug that router-shaped Asus access point for a few seconds, plug it back in, and things would be fine after a few minutes -- every time.)

But I have not at any time blamed the smart end-point devices (the wifi light bulbs, the switched outlets, the whatevers) for what was clearly -- in my case -- an infrastructure problem. (And having a particular old Asus router-box turn funky isn't indicative of a wifi-specific problem, either -- it's just indicative that this hardware had become increasingly broken over time.)
They made about 40B net income in 2023 (that’s right, net) despite spending billions on the metaverse. They have more than enough money in their war chest to do moonshot ideas.
Or just show your matplotlib plots directly in the terminal: https://github.com/jktr/matplotlib-backend-kitty
No it's not on an individual basis, outreach work means something more like the professor talked to a group of students about their work and what they can do to join their lab for a phd. There are lots and lots of undergrads who don't know a thing about graduate school.
> And I think you probably see a parallel in state-based information warfare

My own research shows it’s the opposite: they destroy trust in institutions and experts by telling the truth when those groups lie to their own citizens.

The US did this routinely during the Cold War.

More recent examples include:

- demographic facts about murder, violence, and police

- demographic facts about college enrollment, eg the racism at Harvard

- George Floyd’s autopsy report

- images of cities burning; reports of the 70+ people murdered

- facts about COVID

- facts about COVID vaccines

- facts about Ukraine’s status on the battlefield

- footage of Nazis in Ukraine

- facts about Tavistock and WPATH lacking scientific evidence for their recommendations

Because institutions and experts have normalized lying to “nudge” the public via narrative manipulation, it has become easy for adversaries to undermine the nation by showing contrary facts.

People become more radicalized by demonstrating with evidence a supposed ally has betrayed them, eg, your government lying to you. Once broke, trust in institutions and experts takes generations to repair — or a replacement of those institutions entirely.
There is a lot of money to be made selling stuff to Meta for their latest project apparently. Figure out where they want to go and $$$.
The great thing about the pro-Palestinian position is that it's super easy to understand. Zionists settled land that wasn't theirs and stole it. Easy. Simple. Wrong.

That it's wrong doesn't matter to most people. "Occupied land" has a specific, legal definition that in no way applies to Israel or Gaza, and probably does not apply to the West Bank. And, see, already I'm losing this discussion: with just a single misused word "occupation" you - perhaps unintentionally - sewed misinformation that needs to be unwound even assuming you have a good faith interest in doing that. Most anti Zionists are simply not interested.

So, yes, words matter. If you repeat that Israel has "occupied" territory "illegally" long enough in the media, people like yourself will accept it as true without really understanding what it means.

> That’s a lot less incendiary than your first example.

I don't know what you're taking about. This is my first contribution to the thread.
Precious metals (gold/silver) are very expensive given their weight, relatively easy to divide up, and won't significantly go stale or decompose (some oxidation will occur - sure). I'm sure there are other assets that this is also applicable to - it's just the categorical example I remember discussing with my accounting teacher ~19 years ago.
In 1919 in the United States we put people in prison for handing out anti war pamphlets. They equated it to “yelling fire in a crowded theater” thus dangerous and illegal. Then in the 60s we revised our “understanding” of the 1st amendment. Today it would be pretty extraordinary to have antiwar proponents thrown in prison.

The point is, in the US we forget that our speech didn’t used to be so unrestricted. What some countries call a security risk, in America we would call essential political speech.

Of course there remains the question of the extent to which we should support countries which do not share our values.
Looks like they found a way to unionize and achieve job security in a very roundabout sort of way.
If I asked you what 5+3+9 is, then you wouldn't be allowed to calculate the intermediate values inside your head. Is it really that hard to believe that humans have internal thoughts and that they think before they speak? Is it really such a revelation that I have to remind you of it?
No, I don't have a problem in general with returning capital to shareholders. I'm not making an anti-capitalist argument here. I'm saying. For humanity, net good.

Facebook could do a stock buyback with all of that H100 money. It's a significant amount of money. As a human, complete non facebook shareholder except in ETFs, I would rather they buy H100's and train huge neural nets and then release them for free. Maybe I've bought the kool-aid but I think I believe that Zuckerberg genuinely wants to move humanity forward with this one (of course, it's also a business move). A lesser chairman of the board would have not spent huge capex on GPUs, and instead simply issued a fat dividend or what have you to shareholders who eventually would buy a newer nicer house in Marin or whatever. And indeed, it's only Zuck's unique position with preferential shares that allows him to do this; at a different company, he'd have been shot down and dividends it would be.

On the whole, which is better? What moves the needle in terms of bringing humanity forward?

And this is kind of true of companies in general. "Returning money to shareholders" is not created equal, even though it's all money in the end. Sports betting companies are also returning basis points of GDP to shareholders. Is that a worthwhile thing to do? Net good? (Please, dear reader, do not make the argument that sports betting is actually a good thing because hey we all make free market choices.)
they've open sourced a babble-bot that allows any individual to sockpuppet infinite identities, I have a hard time seeing how the impact will be positive
There have been, more or less, two major modifications to the Constitution. We are now on version 3, depending on how you slice it.

There have also been modifications to our understanding of freedoms. The old comprehension of freedoms the government should safeguard evolved to freedom of speech (and expression), freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

It's okay for people to decide there are more equalities relevant than the simple protection against divine birthright mandates. Especially since we've had hundreds of years to witness the consequences of believing that kind of equality is all that matters.

> “Standing for equality” while owning more wealth than 98% of the population.

I'm afraid I'd have to know who you are thinking of as wolves in sheep's clothing to know what you mean here.
Are you saying codes of conduct make the transmission of misinformation is inherently easier, e.g by sewing distrust in institutions or expertise, or normalizing a gish gallop argumentative style? Are you saying Linus Torvald's behaviour prevented those problems?
Really thorough! Best opening explanation of react render behavior I’ve read to date. One of my goto interview questions for front end devs is “when does react render?”
LLAMA 3 is pretty sweet and some of their vision stuff like segment anything is cutting edge. Facebook just don’t need to publish or make demos since they have a robust path to revenue.
About the first one:

It would be nice (or not) that the app retries the options, like a looser bracket in a elimination championship. In case people is in doubt.

It would be nice that people can share links with custom lists (but prepare to get spam and nasty lists).
Nope we don’t, but it solves a lot of the problems people frequently encounter while building web pages without too much of a downside. It’s a big trade off space and react sits in a very nice spot in that space.
I don't dispute Bill Gates might have been the business mind that drove Microsoft to its status today as the biggest software vendor to businesses on the planet. However, it's not because he was some sort of solo founder sigma grindset.
I slowed down on linux as KDE slowly degraded. I love that someone is starting something new, maybe it’ll go somewhere.
> floppy bollards

The technical term near me seems to be something like "delineator posts" (or just "orange posts" after the colouring) and I think that's pretty reasonable.
As you say, they don't provide any protection against a car or truck, but they do signal where not to be a bit better.
Easy to call it absurd without proposing an alternative. In the real world react solves a ton of problems and lets developers write apps.
Genocide has a precise definition and has been codified in international law. I believe this internationally recognized definition mirrors what most people mean when they use the term. It does not necessitate the systemic killing of every person of a certain genetic identity.

Genocide is outlined in the Genocide convention from 1948[1]. It is short so I’ll give you the whole definition here:

> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

> (a) Killing members of the group;

> (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

> (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Genocide is illegal under international humanitarian law, there is no justification admissible for the crime of genocide. It is not normal to cover it up. Israel is currently being investigated by the ICJ for the crime of genocide. Israel has argued that whatever it is doing in Gaza is not genocide.

1: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_...
The list you speak of already exists — it is the package registries of Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL, etc.

What about American companies using mainland China developers to drive their (well known) open source projects with crappy code? Who’s to blame?

We’re currently smoking at the gas station and things haven’t blown up yet…
Not sure if this is accurate but I've read he used to sell put options relying on the float from his insurance business as collateral. He could easily be doing this using t-bills as collateral as well. The drops in cash could even partly be explained by having to use that money on puts being exercised.. although I suspect if he is doing this it's probably on a small fraction of that cash.
Maybe decades ago when college students based their choice of majors on feelings or whatever that might have been true. Nowadays college students are much more practical. An obvious example is the rise in CS majors in the last decade.

The notion of substantial motivation or hobby to go into STEM is absolutely ridiculous.
Not a ML expert but I think “can’t” is a strong word. There was a podcast with Mark Zuckerberg where I interpret his remarks as, Meta doesn’t want to directly complete with OpenAI, their existing AI services like recommendation already consume a lot of resources. Ads has and will continue to be a cash cow and LLMs has not generated large revenue yet. OpenAI generated about 2B revenue in 2023 (I’m sure it’ll grow significantly in 2024). Meta has made 40B net income in 2023 so you can see financially, there’s no reason to compete (yet).
I feel like making it compiled is a mistake. It will split the world in two
It does go beyond simply making a pledge, though. Applicants are required to list all the ways they've furthered the cause of this very specific issue, regardless of whether the job itself would entail or even offer opportunities to exercise such experience or not.

Like requiring an applicant for a fullstack python/js position to list in detail all of their Erlang experience, projects, talks and initiatives, and gatekeeping on that.

Now Erlang itself is great, and understanding the principles that guide it will almost certainly help you in your career (even if you never write a single line professionally). But to make this a central focus of acceptance for the job is just plain silly.
The yellow ones I’ve interacted with that are permanently glued down will come back up most of the time after a 60-80 mph hit.

Eventually they break off.
You are probably correct. If you are it is something millions of people suffer from, an inability to work with evidence or vet sources. Like how symbols are hard to parse for some, dyslexia, or math incomprehensible to some dyscalculia. How are dysevidentia or dyslogia?
"anti-infidel version" - Godwin's Law but descending to Islamophobia.
People have been landlords and tenants long enough for every facet to have been explored. The whole surface area of the problem is composed of a multitude of aspects that pretty much only work consistently when rules are externally imposed upon actors. Wherein such restrictions are pervasive and enforced they become internalized by all actors and normalized.

If you want to fix a current issue in your state for instance if a substantial portion of your state's tenants are getting their deposits stolen. Say 10% of 200,000 landlords are doing wrong by their tenants.

You can either convince 100 or so lawmakers who have no stake in it and a handful of judges to enforce treble damages against a relative handful until flying straight becomes culturally normalized OR you you try to somehow have a discussion with hundreds of thousands of people with their flag firmly planted on one side and see if you can convince the worst 10% of them not to fuck people over.

Discussion is like the living coral on the outside of the reef its built on the bones of rules and enforcement. People are on average not very good, very motivated, or very intelligent. You don't rely on their goodwill for much beyond navigating and following existing rules and building on on them and you normally build on them by creating new rules not hoping people on the ground spontaneously come up with useful improvements against their own interests.

It's weird to suppose that something nebulous like overall good will and functionality is anything but a conglomeration of all the tiny little aspects which individually provably only work with adult supervision. Hell pick an aspect and compare a US state that regulates some aspect of the landlord tenant relationship with one that doesn't regulate it and not shockingly that its not JUST the state in question that is better or worse it will be better or worse in respect to the matter so regulated.

You can't manage relationships with that much obvious power imbalance via negotiation.
If your roadway is designed so that the average driver only feels comfortable going about 30 km/h / 20 mph, you don't really need to have separate cycle lanes because bikes can match car speed.
I'm not obligated to keep a recording of every real world conversation I have.
The world has mostly been changed by those who went off and built something themselves or with a small group.

Let's not forget that the world's largest famine was only 60 some years ago and was due to someone persuading a country that food yield should be a lower priority. GMOs and factory farming are the tech that moved humanity forward, the tech that people dreamed, worked and sacrificed for. People no longer starve because some locusts ate all their crops or there wasn't enough rainfall, and that's a pretty big deal.

There's zero nuance in this article, it is heavily biased and has no consideration for the negative externalities such as the lower and less predictable yields, the increased difficulty in farming and processing all the different grains, the cost and risk that the farmers are taking on by planting them.

We almost caused a famine in Sri Lanka recently by pressuring the government into banning chemical fertilizers, causing an economic crash (not the only reason but a significant one). I'm all for progress, but how about we be careful with all the "dreams" that have a decent chance of causing mass starvation.
A sad day for humanity.
Did you mean: instead of trying to become a maintainer to a trusted open source project, how about bad actors simply bribe the existing maintainer to do their bidding? There would be no maintainer changes in that scenario.

Related, the motivation for trying to gain privileged access to open source projects is to leverage the existing trust associated with that project. A different long game that could be played is to create a new project with the intent on backdooring it a few years down the road, after it has gained sufficient trust.
> On the other hand, this is the textbook example of a Motte-and-bailey fallacy

In a textbook, it would be called "equivocation".

> where the debater conflates two topics

Yep.

I continue to be somewhat disturbed by the fact that giving a new name to a problem we've recognized for thousands of years has apparently increased awareness. Did people not realize equivocation was bad before Scott Alexander?
This is such a shallow take though. If 10,000 cars pass a certain stretch in a day, and 40 pedestrians, and 2 cars veer off the road per month there, chances are zero pedestrians are hurt most years. If you had enough big beefy bollards likely half those cars would have a fatality. You do the math. I don’t think it would be appropriate to do the bollards if it killed 12 people per year just because some people think pedestrians are more righteous.

Setting aside entirely the absurdity of lining every street and road with bollards from a cost perspective, just the disruption alone of such a massive, decade-long public works project would no doubt enrage all street users alike. This would be the most unpopular policy move ever. Anyone arguing that it should be done anyway seems to deeply dislike the idea of democracy.

Now, the idea that convenience stores and such ought to be strongly encouraged to do bollards is another idea entirely and probably a good one.

Also, people should learn to f**king back in. It’s not that hard since backup cameras were invented. That would also eliminate ¾ of these idiots crashing into stores.
in general everybody already knows that...the question is, who is behind it?
Close Firefox then restore your session. Until you switch to a tab, it stays unloaded and consumes nearly no resources. The tab does stay resident in memory until you restart again, or otherwise suspend it.
> His friend Bill Whittle said he died on his own terms when he decided against enduring a second night on oxygen after suffering a severe lung infection.

Lived on his terms, died on his terms.

Fly safe(-ish) and keep the blue side up.
Europeans did not in fact invent slavery.
For GPUs it could work as you say (except that the incentive for development of expensive and risky technologies would be gone), but I think that wouldn't help that much with things like websites. Most of the value of Facebook is in the network effect. Messenger has more than 1B users and I don't think it's a good app, Telegram is much better IMO (and is also used by almost 1B people in some countries - network effect there), and all Telegram apps are open source - well, backend isn't, but at least you can have modified clones (communicating with Telegram servers) with different features etc. And there is a small open source server implementation made by someone.
And xz wasn't the first. Several attempts have been made to put garbage in the kernel.
> Land acknowledgement statements are creeping into the US these days.

What are the odds they make it to Israel?
I bet it's Guix users doing this /s
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what do you look for to prevent this?